Weekly Update - week 8 - 22' (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

It's Wednesday already and I'm still struggling with all the events. Doing lots of little changes to the existing sprites while adding new ones, optimizing as much as I can. What I've discovered is that it's not the amount of the sprites is important but the size of the texture, so even blank/transparent places of the sprites take up the space that is causing the bug to happen. I already forwarded this to the engine devs and they are working on it. 

That's why I'll just move the update for Sunday (again). Sorry for that, February is very unlucky month for me both irl and in development. Hoping for everything to return to normal next month. 

Let's discuss the latest poll regarding skins. Overwhelming 70% of voters are for having skin for every character on their own. Even after summing up the votes increase of few patrons, it is still the majority of votes for this option. 

I've read all your propositions and concerns regarding that options. I can assure you I won't be focusing on that right now. I'll make slow changes to it, not prioritizing this change over new events, story and animations additions. So I'll be making a new option for girls to have their skin changes, but maybe I'll do it quite differently, that is:

Main Skin will be the basic maid one we have from the start. And here in the game (in chat menu) you can change each of the girls basic look both in cafe gameplay, backrooms and in the ingame cgs (not in events but some events might need for you to have specific skin). But if you chose the winter skin or summer skin, this will overwrite the basic skin options, opening different looks for the girls IN summer style cafe or winter style cafe.
So basically right now my plan is to add the option for each girl to have different set of looks for each different Cafe look. For example in Basic Skin you can change maids look from her work outfit to her casual outfit, while if the summer cafe skin is on, you can change her basic look in her starting swimsuit to the different kind of swimsuit.
I think it's an awesome option that won't require me to completly rewrite the skins (just few extra additions to already existing code) and it will be unique and interesting way of skin implementation. 

Let me know what you think!

So going back to development log, other than mentioned before events, perks and optimization work I'm currently also designing two new clients for Dream Patrons that I plan to add this weekend. Their first events will have to come next week (sorry for that). Also I want to add few tips to the phone so it will start be more useful. 

So I hope you understand, I'll just need to make bigger update for Sunday. And hopefully starting March (when I hope everything will return to normal in real life and in development) I can again do it weekly - just like I prefer it. 

Have a calm week!

Alex